If you’re in a place that feels good and right in the present moment, it’s very easy to be lenient with your old self, to forgive your former self. Because, after all, whatever was before, brought you to this place that’s right and just and beautiful.

If you’re not in such a place, if you’re not where you want to be, forgiving yourself (and the world) becomes increasingly difficult the further away you are from your ideal. In that case, it becomes of vital importance to shift your focus from what has been to what could be. From what you lack to what you have in abundance, and to find a way to transmute what you have to that which it could be.

It’s useful to keep in mind that there is never a real lack of anything. All of it exists, somewhere, sometime. You can be the one who makes it manifest.

If anybody can do it, it’s you.